Toshiba licenses Barco Silex's JPEG 2000 cores for video equipment

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium -- September 4th, 2014 -- Barco Silex, a leading provider of image compression IP cores, and Spinnaker Systems Inc. today announced that Toshiba Corporation has selected Barco Silex JPEG 2000 encoder and decoder cores for developing video encoding and decoding equipment.

"We are so proud that a market leader as Toshiba has selected our high-performance multi-channel full HD JPEG 2000 cores" said Jean-Marie Cloquet, Manager of the Image Compression Division of Barco Silex. "Our R&D team has developed a unique JPEG 2000 architecture that delivers both outstanding performance and flexible, future-proven features. Thanks to our investments in innovation and through strong local support, our customer base of equipment manufacturers integrating JPEG2000 is growing strongly, especially in the Japanese market. Spinnaker Systems’ undisputed excellence in sales and technical support strengthens our commitment to provide customers the highest quality JPEG 2000 solutions with excellent local support”.

About Barco Silex

Barco Silex is a leader in Intellectual Property (IP) cores, reference designs and electronic engineering services (ASIC, FPGA, DSP, Board). Thanks to its continued stream of innovations, Barco Silex provides state-of-the-art solutions in video and encryption. Barco Silex’s history goes back to 1991, offering the best guarantee for continuous support throughout the complete lifecycle of products. For more information about Barco Silex: www.barco-silex.com

About Spinnaker

Spinnaker Systems is a provider of leading edge IP design licenses, and has the engineering/consulting ability to support System Level Integration (SLI). Spinnaker has vast experience in the sales and support of various IPs and EDA tools. Spinnaker Systems is based at Shin-Yokohama, Japan. For more information, see the website: www.spinnaker.co.jp.